Ophiuroidea note details

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Status

Language

English

ISO 639-3

eng

Note

This species name was synonymized with O. dentata by Devaney (1970), but close examination of the holotype showed that they cannot be conspecifc (Stöhr et al. 2013). Instead it is possibly conspecific with O. wendtii or O. echinata.

Source

Stöhr, S.; Boissin, E.; Hoareau, T. B. (2013). Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the Ophiocoma brevipes group (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea), with description of a new subgenus (Breviturma) and a new species. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 68, 1-26.